Please RSVP by Sun, Oct 27 at the EventBrite link above. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given security access to the event.

Free and open to the public.

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Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, An American Marriage, an Oprah Book Club pick; Silver Sparrow, chosen for the NEA’s Big Read Library; The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Studies, United States Artist Foundation, and Black Mountain Institute. She lives in Atlanta, where she is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.